⚠️ El-Fasher: Yale Satellite Analysis Points to 60,000+ Likely Killed “The sheer scale of area with bodies over time, combined with removal activity and the collapse of pattern of life, means we’re talking about tens of thousands… an enormous number of people have been killed,” Nathaniel Raymond...

NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social was among the 30-person delegation Israel turned away from visiting the West Bank. But when she called me, I Iearned why her staff told me the incident was worse than what's been reported -- and that TWO Israeli officials laid hands on an MP. Here's what happened:

Gaza’s Government Media Office reports Israel has broken terms of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire at least 738 times since it took effect on October 10, killing at least 386 Palestinians, while severely restricting shipments of food, shelter, medicine, fuel and other basic goods into Gaza.

Trump and his band of war criminals want the ICC to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate them in the future, and Trump is threatening to sanction the ICC if it doesn't meet their demands. Needless to say, this is beyond outrageous.

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

Israeli forces shot Palestinian child Zahir Nasser Shamiya in the Jabalia refugee camp, and he was subsequently killed when military vehicles drove over his body, preventing ambulance crews from reaching him.

It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.

Israel killled Palestinians seeking aid near the Zikim crossing this summer, then bulldozed their corpses and buried them in shallow unmarked graves. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something

Let me get this straight. Hegseth decided that the military would rescue survivors who appeared shipwrecked and helpless, but would try to kill them if they took 'hostile actions,' like attempting to communicate with others? But if you were really shipwrecked, wouldn't you try to call for help?

At some point, we're going to have to admit that behind all the anti-immigration fervor on the right is a theory of race: The idea that nations succeed or fail because of the racial make-up of its people. On this view, Somalis end up being among the most unwanted because of the situation in Somalia.

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Should be read in conjunction with @nhannahjones.bsky.social 's long piece in The New York Times Magazine in June, which remains the most comprehensive accounting of what Trump has done in the area of civil rights. (Needless to say, things have worsened since then.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

New Black Studies program at Western University in London, Ontario. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is exactly what you do With presidents who coup

This is why you don't award hosting of any international event to the US. The UN headquarters should be moved too. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi says RSF killed 27,000 Sudanese in el-Fasher - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/darfur-governor-minni-minnawi-says-rsf-killed-27000-sudanese-el-fasher

So much Israeli cruelty that even extraordinary stories like this barely cause a ripple. A 15-year old Palestinian boy in the West Bank was shot point-blank by the IDF last week. Wounded, soldiers prevented paramedics from reaching him. Video shows him writhing on the ground youtu.be/_7oOnkZvqQE?...

A pet peeve: When someone says he/she 'believes' something that strikes you as clearly true (eg. 'Trump is a corrupt'), don't say, "That's not a belief' because you think it's clearly true. The strength of a proposition doesn't make it any less a belief. 'I believe 2+2 =4' is a normal thing to say.

🚨 BREAKING: Families woke up Thu. to find themselves suddenly on the wrong side of Gaza’s “yellow line” as Israel pushed the boundary about 300m further west during a tank incursion in eastern Gaza City. The physical blocks were shifted in Tuffah and Shujaiya, Abd Sabbah (X: @AbdSabbah91) reports...

In 2024, I began reading a long post on X that I quickly realized was explicitly arguing that the lesson of the Holocaust is not "Never again, for anyone," but "Never again, for Jews." I was horrified, and had to stop reading. Here Hurwitz isn't saying anything so abhorrent, but it's still troubling

🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources. According to reports: ▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...

Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The simple truth from @craigmokhiber.bsky.social.

After successfully making Gaza unlivable, Israel moves to begin the 'voluntary' emigration of Gazans, which of course is anything but voluntary in any real sense.

This is astonishing when you consider how controversial slavery became in Britain by the end of the 18th century, not to mention how recently some of these islands still had ties to Britain (some still have). Makes you think that they don't know this history because they don't know British history.

Trump is destroying the ICC in order to protect Israel. This is not getting the attention it deserves. From @pbsnews.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKV3...

Must read account of some of the horrors happening to children in El Fashir.

Canadians thought @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social would stand up to Trump for Canada. Instead, he's Trumpifying Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Between 95,000 and 105,000 people remain in El Fasher and are at risk of being killed. genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...

Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings.

You don't take this exceptionally cruel step unless you're in the maniacal grip of anti-Palestinian hatred. Israel needs deradicalization much more than Gaza does.

"The campaign, however, requires syringes and solar-powered refrigeration units. Vaccines need to be kept cold or they lose their potency. UNICEF is complaining that Israeli authorities are blocking importation of these essential items, since they consider them 'dual use,' with military purposes."

Israel should be made to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza, certainly for everything it has destroyed since the ceasefire began.

President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Trump has created, in his mind, the first failure-proof presidency, for when his policies fail he will invariably lie about them, creating an elaborate make-believe world where his policy decisions unfailingly lead to successful outcomes.

"He describes an incident at one distribution site where two young men were running in the general rush to get aid. 'You could just see two soldiers run after them. They drop on to their knees and they just take two shots, and you could just see … two heads snap backwards and just drop,' Sam says."

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

This is what awaits Gaza, as well as Lebanon.

I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

"In a matter of weeks, [it] moved tens of thousands of Ukrainians to safety in Canada, with chartered flights and open work permits. By contrast, Amnesty reported that, as of late July, only a few dozen families have arrived in Canada from Gaza under the TRV program." Canada showing its true colors

Outrageous.

"As the number of antisemitism investigations rose, they eclipsed other discrimination cases: in [2024], officials opened nearly twice as many inquiries over antisemitism allegations than over all other types of racial discrimination. Under Trump, the latter type appear to have ended altogether."

As far as we know, 200,000 people remain in El Fasher, and we have to assume that they are at risk of meeting the same fate as befell at least 7,000 of their fellows -- point-blank executions. 60,000 more have fled and remain unaccounted for. These too are at risk. The situation is urgent.

If Nigerian Christians are so threatened, then why is US refugee policy closing the door to them, along with the overwhelming majority of the non-white world? I have an idea.

“Caricom is proving to be an unreliable partner in some regards because they chose Venezuela over Trinidad. They chose Venezuela over Trinidad, and that is something we need to remember.” No, you chose Trump and his war crimes on the sea over CARICOM. www.guardian.co.tt/news/kamla-a...

If the death of a single Israeli soldier means that Israel is allowed to kill over a 100 Gazans and injure 100s more, how many Israelis can be killed given that Israel continues to ▪️restrict the flow of aid and medicines ▪️block the entry of heavy equipment, tents and fuel ▪️kill Gazans everyday?

One year ago

Yet people still write as if the Democrats lost the white working class because Republicans are better for that class as a class. At some point we need to acknowledge that something else is happening.